Article Planning - Kim Hutchinson Interview

Article Planning Sheet

Plan the language use of the primary code of your article in the box below.

Article target audience:

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	The purpose of this magazine is to hold an interview with popular local tattooist and piercing, Kim Hutchinson, and to show her in a positive light to the readers. As most of the people reading the magazine will already be interested in tattoos, it is more about giving her coverage and making people aware that she is local and that they can get tattooed by her if they are at the legal age. It will be a humours interview, asking both serious and funny questions in order to show Kim as positively as I can.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	This article will be in first person seeing as I am having an interview with the person and that means she will have to answer the questions for herself.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	As my magazine is quite provocative in the fact that is features things that people would normally see as ‘taboo’ such as tattoos and piercings, the language used doesn’t have to be particularly colloquial but at the same time, I do not want overly explicit language used, especially as in this interview I am supposed to be portraying Kim positively. The language will however be informal as it will connect my target audience better and there will probably be the occasional mild swear word – but as mentioned before, I do not want anything too explicit due to the nature of this interview and also considering the lower age ranges of my target audience.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	As I am conducting an interview with my subject, this means that it isn’t actually down to me what type of stylistics are used in this article as I cannot change what they have said. It literally will be a matter of me asking a question and then having to relay their answer back in my article. I can try my best to word my questions so that I could possibly get a certain reaction, but the main content of my article, which will be the answers, would generally not have a particular stylistic.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	Once again, as this is an interview article, I cannot change how my interview reacts and gives answers. As previously said, it is up to them how they answer my questions, whether it be in a sarcastic tone of address or if in a helpful tone of address. I can, however, give my questions to my interviewee a certain tone, which might give the article a hint of a tone, but I personally feel like it wouldn’t really be worth it.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The structure for this article will be set out like: 1) Question? Answer. Each question and answer will have their own paragraph and number so that is very easy to read and look at, but also very easy to skip straight to a particular question if the reader does not want to read all of the questions. I feel that this is the best format for an interview as it is clear to the reader what the article is about and it is also very organised.